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It normalizes the use of genAI for even more things.
Today it's just shitposts, where quality isn't important.
Tomorrow it'll be one off projects that their creator really wanted to be out, so quality won't be important.
After tomorrow, it'll be small group efforts becoming "solo endeavours" with lower quality artwork.
After that, it'll be corporations within the creative fields that really want to lay off their workforce, even if it means lower quality work, because they can make up with the lower production costs and higher quantity.
And one day, we will wake up to a reality, where everything is AI generated slop, and we won't be the "idea guys", who write the prompts for them.
If you ask: not all other technologies were all good either. Cars made us dependent on them, forever restructuring our cities, atomizing our communities. Hell, some of the tools that made creative endeavors, such as home recording and easy to use game engines caused "the bedroom djent kid" and "fetishization of solo indie devs" problems respectively.
That reminds me of Putin's argument on why a person who threw a plastic drinking glass at a policeman was arrested: "Today they throw plastic drinking glasses, tomorrow they'll start throwing molotovs, then - killing people."
The irony in this is that autocrats really love generative AI, especially when it is used to dismantle democracy.
There is no irony. Autocrats use all available tools. They would use lemmy and fediverse too if it wasn't too small to manipulate public opinion.